Top Engineering Jobs in Edinburgh

Build scalable, full-stack, AI-enabled products for BlackRock’s Aladdin investment compliance and analytics workflows. Lead technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement. Apply generative AI, semantic search, retrieval, intelligent assistants, and agentic workflows responsibly. Partner with product, engineering, compliance, and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into deliverable solutions. Influence architecture, champion DevOps and SRE practices, mentor engineers, and promote quality, resilience, security, observability, and maintainability across a global organization.

Provide technical direction for GitLab Dedicated, a managed single-tenant SaaS platform. Lead architecture and transformation across resilience, failover, tenant orchestration, change management, automation, and platform integrations. Identify systemic reliability and scalability risks, establish reusable platform patterns, strengthen service ownership, and guide cross-team technical decisions. Mentor senior engineers and advance engineering excellence across the organization.

Leads and scales a data engineering team of 8+ engineers, owning data strategy, platform modernization, architecture, reliability, and engineering standards. Partners with product, analytics, and commercial teams to deliver scalable, secure, high-quality data solutions. Responsibilities include coaching, mentoring, roadmap ownership, stakeholder management, performance measurement, and representing data engineering with senior leadership. The role requires technical credibility across cloud platforms, data warehouses, orchestration, modeling, pipelines, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD.

Provides hands-on technical leadership for an AI product delivery pod, translating product outcomes into secure, scalable, production-ready solutions. Leads internal and supplier engineers, oversees architecture, design and code reviews, establishes engineering standards, and selects appropriate AI approaches. Designs governed systems with auditability, provenance, human oversight and operational readiness, while mentoring teams and presenting technical progress to senior stakeholders.

Graduate engineers complete a three-month bootcamp followed by nine months on live banking projects. They gain experience across the engineering lifecycle, including coding, testing, deployment, Agile practices, data, AI-assisted tools, and modern engineering methods. The programme provides mentoring, certifications, and global collaboration opportunities, with support toward a permanent engineering role after successful completion.

Eight-week Engineering internship involving real business projects, Scrum ceremonies, agile and AI-assisted engineering practices, networking, and learning across banking technology functions. Interns contribute to engineering work, develop technical and problem-solving skills, collaborate with experts, and may progress to the graduate programme. The role requires a penultimate-year STEM student targeting a 2:1, with strong communication, analytical, data, experimentation, adaptability, and learning abilities.

Own Perk’s global go-to-market engineering strategy, architecture, tooling, automation roadmap, and commercial outcomes. Build production workflows in Clay, Salesforce, and code; automate prospecting, selling, account management, and AI-assisted processes; establish engineering standards; and lead a senior distributed team. Partner with revenue leaders to translate pipeline and productivity problems into scalable technical solutions with measurable impact.

Manages engineering teams of up to 10 people, guiding technical and product vision, talent development, performance, delivery, and operational excellence. Partners with clients, product managers, and client success teams to deliver platform solutions and drive technical roadmaps. Requires engineering management experience, strong communication, Agile and lean development knowledge, and familiarity with modern technologies including Kafka. The role involves 4–6 business trips annually and hybrid office work three days per week.

Leads technical development and business growth for AECOM’s Ground Engineering team. Responsibilities include reviewing geotechnical data, analyses, and design calculations; advising clients through project stages; overseeing project schedules, budgets, and delivery; leading multidisciplinary work; developing client relationships; supporting tenders; and mentoring junior engineers. Requires chartered status, civil engineering or geology qualifications, strong UK ground-condition knowledge, geotechnical design expertise, stakeholder management, networking, and team leadership.

Leads the engineering organization responsible for modeling, rendering, simulation, distributed computing, and quality. Owns platform roadmap execution, manages engineering managers, accelerates AI-assisted software development, improves delivery and testing processes, and balances zero-to-one product development with ongoing releases. Partners with Product and represents platform engineering to company leadership. Requires deep technical credibility and a proven record of organizational transformation, product delivery, and engineering leadership.

Lead the Web Platform engineering team, setting technical direction for reusable pipelines, tooling, build plugins, and frameworks. Manage and develop senior engineers, oversee recruitment and retention, align with broader technology strategy, and own platform reliability and vendor partnerships. Promote DevOps, engineering excellence, testing, reliability, product thinking, and developer experience while contributing hands-on code and driving strategic alignment across engineering communities.

Manages the Web Platform engineering team, overseeing technical vision, reusable pipelines, tooling, frameworks, developer experience, reliability, and production operations. Leads senior engineers, recruitment, retention, technical strategy, vendor partnerships, OKRs, and engineering excellence. The role combines hands-on software engineering with people leadership, platform ownership, product thinking, and cross-functional influence across customer- and colleague-facing applications.

Lead and scale the engineering organization for a regulated digital-asset custody platform. Own hiring, org design, engineering operations (on-call, incidents, release hygiene), delivery against roadmaps, audit and regulator readiness (SOC 2, SAMA, ISO 27001), and cross-functional alignment. Amplify an existing small, specialized team to meet regulatory and institutional requirements while preserving culture and retention.

Lead and develop a remote full-stack engineering team of up to eight engineers. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, career development, technical leadership, architecture, reliability, observability, developer experience, CI, ML tooling, infrastructure cost management, agile delivery, and collaboration with senior leadership to align engineering strategy with business outcomes.

Leads quality engineering across multidisciplinary Agile teams by establishing testing standards, strategies, governance, automation, and quality gates. Develops automated UI and API test suites, integrates testing into CI/CD pipelines, supports functional through acceptance testing, manages defects and test data, and provides release assurance evidence. Coaches engineering teams on shift-left practices and quality improvement while remaining hands-on. The role may also support building and leading a future quality engineering team.

Serves as a pre-sales technical consultant for Microsoft 365 Copilot, partnering with sales, customers, partners, engineering, and customer success teams. Leads discovery, solution envisioning, business value assessments, technical demonstrations, architecture discussions, competitive objection handling, and proof requirements. Develops industry-aligned solution strategies, advances qualified pipeline, supports proposals and licensing, and helps secure customer solution design endorsement and deployment plans.

Manage global operational risk programs including risk engineering, property loss prevention, and business resilience. Partner with stakeholders and vendors to drive governance, compliance, audits, remediation, data analysis, and program deployment to reduce loss and ensure business continuity across manufacturing and supply chain operations.

Lead a distributed team responsible for nTop’s modeling and rendering technology. Coach senior engineers, structure concurrent technical workstreams, improve development velocity, partner with Product Management on execution, and guide modernization of the rendering pipeline and transition from desktop software to AI-assisted, multi-surface products. The role requires technical fluency in graphics, geometry, computational math, C++, and GPU rendering, along with experience managing distributed engineering teams.

Develop and ship software for Avakin Life, a large-scale social gaming platform serving millions of users. Opportunities span Unity and game development, backend and platform engineering, general software engineering, and AI-focused technology work. Engineers will collaborate remotely across the UK and EU, solve technical challenges at scale, and build virtual-world experiences that support global social interaction.

Lead a five-person development and QA team as a player-coach. Own team performance, hiring, wellbeing, commitments, release planning, estimation, development processes, and collaboration with product. Participate in coding, enforce engineering standards, explain technical risks to nontechnical stakeholders, and support the migration from a PHP monolith to Vue 3 and AWS serverless services.

Associate software developer who will train and join a specialized software team, contributing to design, development, testing, debugging, deployment, and maintenance of software applications. The role involves collaboration across hardware, embedded software, integration, algorithms, and AI/ML teams; completing assigned work; and documenting technical work and learnings.

Leads the engineering operations capability across quality engineering, environment management, release readiness, engineering assurance, risk controls, resilience, and continuous improvement. Owns engineering standards and quality frameworks, drives automation and DevSecOps adoption, oversees partner and outsource-provider performance, and uses metrics and risk insights to improve delivery confidence. The role requires senior stakeholder influence and strong engineering leadership within a complex, regulated environment.

Lead and grow a compiler, kernel, and runtime engineering team responsible for accelerator bring-up across the Modular stack. Drive technical direction, architecture, coding, roadmap delivery, vendor partnerships, SOWs, milestones, cross-team dependencies, hiring, and production-quality model deployment across diverse hardware platforms.

Lead Salesforce and Node.js architecture, scalability, performance, security, and engineering excellence for enterprise applications. Manage and mentor a team of 10–15 engineers, set goals, conduct one-on-ones, hire talent, remove blockers, and partner with Product and Engineering leadership. Drive technical direction, integrations, deployment processes, developer experience, and reliable roadmap delivery across Salesforce and AWS-based services.

Build the platform, tooling, workflows, guardrails, and metrics needed for safe, measurable agentic software development. Integrate autonomous coding agents with Linear, GitHub, CI, testing, and code review processes. Improve monorepo readiness, create isolated execution environments, establish benchmarks and adoption metrics, and partner cross-functionally with Platform, Security, AI, Architecture, and engineering teams.